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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what name does Amir call Abe?
(a) Abdullah.
(b) Hussein.
(c) Tariq.
(d) Usama.

2. How does Emily Amir characterize the subject of the painting she is basing her painting on?
(a) Slave.
(b) Slave-owner.
(c) Assistant.
(d) Merchant.

3. How is Disgraced performed?
(a) Without intermission.
(b) With intermissions after each scene.
(c) With one long intermission and two short ones.
(d) With one intermission.

4. How does the playwright characterize Isaac’s looking around while Emily is getting him coffee in Scene Two?
(a) Bold.
(b) Intrusive.
(c) Tentative.
(d) Sly.

5. What does Emily say corporate philanthropy typically hides?
(a) Greed.
(b) Insider trading.
(c) Fraud.
(d) Racism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Emily and Isaac hear from offstage, right after Isaac arrives?

2. How does Amir’s boss Mort think he can lower his cholesterol?

3. What is Amir most concerned people will think of his defense of Imam Fareed?

4. What neighborhood is Amir and Emily’s apartment in?

5. What does Amir say Imam Fareed tried to get him to do, all the time Amir spent visiting with him in prison?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the archetype for Amir Kapoor’s character?

2. What is the significance of the stage direction indicating that Amir speaks with a flawless accent?

3. What does Emily mean when she invokes Goldman Sachs in the discussion about the imam?

4. What do we learn about Amir’s career when the phone rings, interrupting the painting session?

5. What contradiction does Amir identify in Emily’s feelings about him and his responsibilities?

6. How do Amir and Emily think differently about Amir’s position about Imam Fareed?

7. What is the juxtaposition we se, in the phone calls Amir takes, back-to-back, while Emily is painting him?

8. What was the imam Abe is talking about arrested for?

9. What do we learn about Emily when Amir tells her that she should have her black Spanish boyfriend sit for her?

10. Explain the difference between earnestness and irony as Emily describes it in her discussion with Isaac.

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